New Oxford AZ production facility "starts today" - well actually scheduled to produce product to use by April.
UK Government bought the use of the facility in Livingston (17 miles from Edinburgh) for 12 months and paid £55m upfront in the Spring to get the existing plant modified for the new vaccine + 100% of first year production. Test samples are already in use throughout UK.
60m doses possible, fingers crossed, this year.
Here is the best bit - It's French owned company called Valneva
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